Electricity or What?
A most remarkable exhibit in the Electrical Exposition that opened in New York the other day (says a Home paper) is a room lighted without lights-- not an artificial light made with gas or incandescent electric lights, but a new type of light, rivalling daylight ; a pure whiteness that casts no deep shadow. D. McParlan Moore, the exhibitor, calls it the ' light of the future.' It is the result of electricity, but can scarcely be called an electric light. It is produced in a glass tube, about 2£ inches in diameter and lOfc to 12fc long. The tube is partially ex* hausted of air. A powerful current of electricity is introduced into the tube, and by this light is produced. This long tube is disposed of in a room by placing it on the picture rail or secreting it behind the rail. It is claimed for this new light that it is virtually daylight, and that photographs may be taken by it. The life of the tuba as a light giver is a mystery which is exciting the electricians, for it begins to look as if it were a Keely motor and would go on for ever. In Mr Moore's workshop one of these tubes have been in pervice several weeks with no sign of exhaustion.
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Manawatu Herald, 27 August 1896, Page 3
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219Electricity or What? Manawatu Herald, 27 August 1896, Page 3
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